These age gaps arent crazy. At least in this version of sleeping beauty she didnt wake up pragnent with her pirnce charming.

Eugene is 23 in the film, NOT 26. Although he thinks he's 22. He turns 26 halfway through the third season of the sequel series, when Rapunzel is 20 1/2 (each season of TTS ends on or very near Raps' birthday). So there's a 5 1/2 year age gap between them, not an 8 year gap.

These age gaps might seem creepy due to the difference of the times. My grandmother at 17 married my grandfather 34, and no one had a problem with it. This is because women's youth and ability to have many children were prioritized by men, while a mature and well off man who could raise a family was prioritized by women. They truly were different times.

actually in the Disney version the prince of Snow White is 17 years old, it is in the original story that he is 31 years old

And now I can see why the evil Queen wanted to keep Snow White's beauty hidden, not only becuz she feared she'd surpass her in beauty but also to keep her away from creeps twice her age

The fact that tiana was that hardworking and awesome at 19 makes me love her even more

Actually, it was stated and confirmed by the book “The Art of Walt Disney” that Prince Florian (from Snow White) is 18. Not 31.

Honestly l’m not surprised about Meg. She actually has a maturity about her

According to Tangled the Series Eugene was 23/24 in the movie as he was turning 26 in the middle of the third season when Rapunzel was 20 years old.

For some reason, I always had the impression that Meg was decades, if not hundreds or thousands of years old. Something about the "selling her soul to Hades" made it sound like she was trapped in a sort of ageless slavery to him, and the way she talked about making the deal, and her lover betraying her, sounded so distant, like it was another life. It feels weird to think of it only being a handful of years, or to imagine that he could even still be alive during the events of the movie.

Well remember at the end of Tangled Flynn said “After years of asking and asking…” he asked Rapunzel for years and finally she said yes to marry Flynn. So she might’ve been about 25 maybe when they got married

Philip kissed aurora to save her life. Maleficent literally told him about it in the scene before. She also clearly loved him

It's also important to remember that historically, 16 has been the most common age of majority, and sometimes that age was younger, especially for girls. Aurora is an adult. Jasmine ends her movie as a legal adult, as she was only three days shy of 16 at the start of the movie. The film's climax actually happens ON her birthday. And Florian was clearly aged down. He doesn't look older than 16.

What’s kinda funny is the fact that we all believed Eric was older than 18, but Eric’s voice actor was actually 16 when recording making him about a decade younger than Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel who was 28.

That is just craaasssssszy !!!!!!

What?! I knew Snow White was only 14 in her film, but I didn't know the gap was that big!

To me all age gaps seemed normal considering the era they were set in. The age gaps were fine but their ages were a little too young (some of them) and very much unsettling if we were to compare them to our modern times. But snow white is actually very unsettling including the fact that she was 14.

The biggest age gap in all of Disney belongs to Milo and Kida from 'Atlantis The Lost Empire'. Milo is 30 and Kida is like 8000 or so (she was a kid when Atlantis sank).

WOW did not even expect that!

Thank you 🙏🏻

Okay but let’s remember Ariel didn’t leave her family for a man, he was just the cherry on top, she already wanted to go to the human world and it’s only after her father destroyed her special collection of artefacts that she finally decided to leave because let’s be honest, if my dad came in and destroyed my room I would also run away and try and get some hot guy to kiss me so I could stay forever

I know a lot of fashion history. Marie Antoinette was only 14 when she got engaged. It was also common in the 15 hundreds for girls to be married off at 12. So it’s not surprising to me. I didn’t even bat an eye!

Ok so I already knew that snow white and the prince were far apart. Still the fact that she's only 14 is slightly disturbing.

To be fair, in the times these movies take place the age gaps seem quite normal (mainly referring to how young the girls are). As for Beauty and the Beast, I see how people like the movie, but I've always found it to be creepy.

For the Arial one, it was actually very common in those days for people to be married very young, 16 was always considered marrying age

Actually Eugene is actually 23 in the movie tangled. By the end of “rapunzels tangled adventure” which took a spand of 3 years, rapunzel is 21 years old and Eugene is 26 years old, his last birthday seen on screen in season 3. Eugene is “24 years old” because in “Rapunzel’s tangled adventure” on his birthday he points his age is wrong. The candles counting 26 instead of 25. But after learning his official birthday he was a year older than what everyone thought. So rapunzel and Eugene have a 5 Year difference.

True that!

Belle was not kidnapped, she took her father's place as Beast prisoner

Philip always gets such a bad rap in these. If you were told "this girl is never going to wake up and the kingdom is going to stay under a horrible curse unless you kiss her" (because Flora does tell him that *directly*) even the most respectful-of-boundaries person would do it - likely as cursorily as possible - and then proceed with the relationship like they weren't yet at the kissing phase. We don't get mad at people who give rescue breaths to a drowning person because it's medically necessary stuff; that's the category I put the Sleeping Beauty kiss in.

Actually Prince Florian is actually 18, his age is listed in The Art of Walt Disney by Christopher Finch that contains an old outline for the film and it states the prince is 18, so he is not 31 as many places online state.

Bros be acting so weird about a 4 year age gap ☠️☠️☠️

Wow. That is really surprising!!!

Back when the stories were originally written, noble women were married as young as 12 ( although not encouraged to consummate the relationship until 14/15). We can’t add our modern sensibilities to them. It was a total different world. Life expectancy was significantly shorter and people lived faster lives. At one point it was like 25.

what a lot of folks forget is that at the time periods that most of these stories take place , it was common practice for familys to marrie off thire daughters as young as age 12, and were offten married off to men in thire 30s or older

Love it❤

I already knew about snow white and prince Florian from a different channel and it completely changed my extremely young childhood

Most of the gaps aren’t too bad, but also looking at the historical times these stories are based on, it was common and not creepy. People were very different at different times and in different cultures.

I'm pretty sure Eric is 21 because in the musical Grimsby holds a concert looking for Eric's bribe on his 21st birthday. And Ariel is obviously 16

My father was one week shy of being exactly 8 years older than my mom. They were 24 and 16 when they met, 25 and 17 when they got married. And where married for just shy of 50 years when my dad passed away.

Long time ago when times were tough people lived less and had babies and fell in love at younger ages hopefully that answers your questions because a lot of those princesses are in the 90’s, 80’s, and 70’s. But that is just the setting of their movie timing.

18 and 26 isnt a bad age gap at all, the really bad age gap was snowhite and prince charming

I... think I have a different definition of "age gap"... because most of these are less than 4 years apart and that's a pretty healthy/normal age difference.

cool video😃

Amazing viedeo 😨😊❤

I dont think 18 and 26 age gap is that bad.

Surprising the age gap between Milo & Kida from Atlantis: the lost empire wasn’t included. Now that was a major gap!

now i want to re watch this Disney movies😫

This changes my childhood😢😮

The fact that most of the “bad” age gaps are really tame compared to the original stories shows a lot about the time period they are from. Most of these “sweet romantic fairytales” are pretty dark.

I feel like the only crazy age gap is Snow White

Oh god that just made me ok the Snow White one made me literally throw my tablet😂😂😂

My Aladdin and Jasmine age guesses were 16 and 18. I was pleasantly surprised with how accurate my guesses were.

Now on the Mulan thing they were trying to plan out who she was going to marry at the beginning of the film which kind of makes it so that you know that it is the average age for women of their version of China during that time period to get married Love how we’re ignoring the time period of these places.. Now the last one has a big hell no from me on every facet of its existence

Rapunzel and flynn doesn't matter as long as she's 18 before they got together its fine. And the Hercules one isn't crazy either, clearly people forget our grandparents who were often several years apart. My grandparents were 9 years apart

I haven’t watched half of the things you mentioned, these are: snow while, the little mermaid, Hercules, sleeping beauty, but the age gap doesn’t really surprise me, because in the olden days people under the age of 18 could still get married, and well… by looking at the settings the Disney movies at set in, I believe that the year wasn’t 2023 otherwise they would have electronics lol.

I was so suprised at snow whites one

None of them were as bizarre as Snow White (and Hercules). It doesn't bother me much since my grandparents are 12 years apart, when I get married or date someone, they will be around my age. Two to three years at the most.

Jasmine was only 15 and Jaffar (who was at least 40) asked the genie to make her fall in love with him, and when she pretended to fall in love with him they started making out (if I remember correctly, lol)

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I almost screamed with horror when you did the age gap of snow white, like how!!!!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="242">4:02</a> I can’t believe Megara is 10 years older than Hercules.

In "Sleeping Beauty", you clearly learn at the beginning of the movie that Prince Phillip & Aurora are betrothed. Phillip was 5, so when she turns 16, he's 21. Yes, that still seems a little odd and that he's too old for her, but it was the 14th century, as Phillip points out, so it probably wasn't that uncommon for 16 year olds to marry. I'll defend this movie until the day I die, so come at me! 😂

You really blow my mind man 🥺🥺😶‍🌫😶‍🌫😱😱🤯🤯🤯🤯

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="219">3:39</a> 😭

Amazing video 👌

i prefer the once upon a time snow and Charming both seem to be grown ups and she already knew him when he woke her up

The snow White part had me dieing

They did not change my mind but the Rapunzel one is crazy!!!

Well, different times, different rules.

There's nothing weird about those age gaps, except maybe for Snowhite, and even there that was pretty normal not that long ago.

eugene was actually 23/24 in the movie. he turns 26 in s3 of the tv show which takes place around 3 years after the movie.

Elsa was crowned when she was old enough. As a Norse woman she would be 18 years old at that point, so Anna had to be only 16 or 17 when she met Hans. Pocahontas or Matoaka as her real name was were even younger 11 or 13 when she met John smith(30). She met John Rolfe who brought her to England and married her and together they had a son named Thomas Rolfe. She died from illness on trip back to America in 1617, only 22 years old. Not sure how that story even passed Disney’s censorship back in the 90’.

When the original stories were written, this was common.

it was a different time period and the only gap im concerned about is snow white and florian but other then that, seeing when these take place it's completely reasonable

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="357">5:57</a> it's so wierd when the girl is older

In Hans Christian Anderson's short story "The little sea maid" She was fifteen. No mention how old the prince is, but probably over 21. Enable to get his title and inheritance.

Remember, outside of tiana, all these couples are from bc era (herc/meg, mulan/shang) to middle ages where marriage where age gaps were not thought about. The life span of people during those times werent long. So the ages where people became adults were younger than now a days. Dont overthink these gaps, true some wont fly today (snow white), but at the time period it took placewas fine.

On a scale of 1-10 creepiness, here's how I would rate the age gaps with reasons. Flynn and Rapunzel - 26-18: 3, Both are still young, 8 years may seem like a lot, but I've seen a lot worse. But the ability to buy alcohol for someone not legal to drink is risky, it's avoidable, but still potential. This will be a running factor, so expect it in most pairings. The fact that she's sheltered and might act younger doesn't really factor here, there are plenty of people in their 20s and 30s who still act like immature children, so Rapunzel being only slightly naive about the outer world isn't as bad as it could be. Cristof and Anna - 21-18: 2, There's nothing wrong with this except the alcohol thing, but again, that's avoidable. Both of them are acting their ages, albeit a romanticized Disney version, but still. Hans and Anna - 23-18: 3, The problem here was his motives, but then again those motives stemmed from wanting to prove something to his older brothers. Also it's not unheard of considering both are royalty and he was trying to form an alliance between the kingdoms, one that would give him control over at least one of them. Not saying he did it the right way, just that I understand the reason behind the actions. Eric and Ariel - 18-16: 2, In terms of age gap, there's nothing really wrong here. Ariel's motives were definitely misguided, but she was a rebellious teenager, much like a lot of teenagers are. Getting married, again, it's a royalty thing. Considering that back in medieval times the offspring of royal families would be betrothed by the parents at birth in order to form alliances, so getting married at this age is actually pretty on point for royalty. Naveen and Tiana - 21-19: 1, Nothing wrong here, not even the alcohol thing, considering the time period this takes place in (1920s), and the legal drinking age in Louisiana at the time was 18, there's nothing wrong here. Charming and Cinderella - 21-19: 1, There is literally nothing wrong with this one. Much like a lot of Disney stories it's a riches and rags pairing, which Cinderella was only a peasant girl because of her step-mother taking everything when Cindy's father died. Otherwise Cindy would have at least had nobility standing. Florian and Snow - 31-14: 10, This would have been less if it was a royal betrothal thing, but considering everything, that in reality, after eating the apple, Snow was dead and only was saved after the bouncing on the horse caused her to cough up the apple. For Florian, not only was he a pedo, but he had no idea that Snow would revive, even in the romanticized Disney version. He is a necro as well. Disney version, he kissed a dead girl, which I understand some people give their loved ones final kisses and whatnot, but this wasn't a goodbye kiss, this was a "I want to get in her pants" kind. In the original novel version, he didn't kiss her, he fondled and groped what was essentially a corpse and was intending on bringing her home to copulate with. Very sick and creepy when you think about it. Thankfully 'Once Upon A Time' fixed this problem. Hercules and Meg - 18-28: 3, I've still seen worse age gaps and to be fair a lot of women who are close to 30 do tend to look at younger guys. Plus, this is ancient Greece and Herc is a demi-god, if you know the history of the Greek pantheon, you'd understand that this pairing is rather tame comparatively to what the Gods themselves did. Linguini and Collette - 19-26: 1, Nothing wrong with the woman being older, even at a 7 year gap, and considering this takes place in France, even the legal drinking age thing isn't a problem since it's 18 there. Li Shang and Mulan - 19-16: 1, This is quite tame for this era of China, considering in Feudal Era China there were plenty of instances of girls younger than Mulan being taken as wives by men much older than Shang. It was probably not the best way to start their relationship, but this is about the age gaps, not the how they started. Tarzan and Jane - 18-20: 1, Nothing wrong with the age gap or the woman being older, I had a 20 year old girlfriend when I was 18, so this isn't a bad one. In fact, this one I even give props to because this was probably the biggest SOCIAL gap that had to be overcome in Disney couples. Phillip and Aurora - 20-16: 2, Remember that royal betrothal at birth to form kingdom alliances I mentioned? Here it is. Also, this kiss to wake her up is considerably different than the one with Florian and Snow. This one was in order to break a spell. If you remember, Maleficent's curse was supposed to kill Aurora, but Merriwhether's counter to it was simply to put her to sleep until True Love's Kiss woke her. Considering Maleficent was the Fairy Queen, Merriwhether even being able to alter the curse was quite a feat. But I digress, so back to Phillip and Aurora, while the age gap might seem weird, it's medieval times and a royal betrothal, so it's really not as bad as you might think. Adam and Belle - 21-17: 3, The age isn't as bad as some others on this list and considering this was France during the 1700s, this is not unheard of. Also, to be fair, Adam was cursed to take on an appearance matching his personality at the time. Aladdin and Jasmine - 18-15 (technically 16): 1, While at the start of the movie Jasmine was 15, it was even stated that her birthday was in 3 days time, so by the end of the movie she was indeed 16. So a 2 year gap is nothing creepy, this is like a high school senior dating a sophomore, not anything bad really. Also, consider this is in Saudi Arabia and think of their customs of marrying off their daughters. Achmed was a lot creepier of a suiter and the real problem in this one was Jafar. While Achmed was around 40, he was simply adhering to the customs of the country. Jafar on the other hand was at least in his 50s and hard creeping on Jasmine. John and Pocahontas - 20-18: 1, This is not a creepy age gap at all. Only bridge this relationship had to cross was the social one, which like Tarzan and Jane, included a language barrier, but this one came with the added issue of the Natives versus the Colonizers in terms of civilization barriers as well.

Except the Snowhite one nothing left with no words!

Am I the only one who's blown away every time I hear Prince Eric's voice? Whenever I hear it I think I "THAT'S SPIDER-MAN FROM THE 90s CARTOON!!!😲"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="216">3:36</a> excuse me what!?

If they’re over 18 it doesn’t really matter. Under is different. Plus a lot of these age gaps are normal when you go into your 40s, if the wife is 42 and the husband is 50 no one bets an eye

I was shocked but I still love them all

Yes

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="210">3:30</a> How did they get away with that?

As a History student, i just want everyone thinking that big age gaps were a thing in medieval/modern history (~476 - ~1793) and even ancient history to know that : no, it wasn't the norm at all. In most European countries the majority was at 18, even 21 sometimes. Except some rare big families married their young heirs together (but they would just be engaged most of the time, a marriage couldn't happen if one of the two was a minor), other than that, the usual age people got married at varied from 22 to 30 years old over the centuries both for the men and women. (Some kings did marry young girls, but again, they usually actually had to wait for her majority before really marrying) So, no, it wasn't the norm at all. (and outside marriage relationship weren't really popular at the time, at least for everyone except the lovers) As for ancient (latin/greek) history i didn't have that much classes yet, but i can tell you that there were very strict age rules too, and that they might indeed have married quite young, but most of the time the two had similar ages too. Thank you for your time :) (i'm just really tired to see clichés justifying quite terrible acts such as child marriage, who actually wasn't that popular since people didn't really have the time to care, and they married late to not have too many children to feed because it was difficult.)

with tangled in the animated series they are very upfront with saying the age gaps especially with eugenes birthday episode

I don't care what age these gaps are crazy but I still love all these shows!

I really love Tiana and Naveen, Ariel and Eric, Rapunzel and Eugene, Aurora and Philip are my fav because they are most romantic couples in disney

18 and 21 are both young adult ages, plus only a 3 year age gap. Think about it this way, Anna as 20 and Kristoff as 23, that would only be in two years time.

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<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="221">3:41</a> omg

The gaps don't bother me. Meg looks don't match her age, makes me wonder how old Queen Hilde is.

Prince Florian is actually 18 years old.

I was so obsessed with snow white and other Princesses and this!?

Yes snow

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="50">0:50</a> "Flynn Ryder" is not 26 in the movie, but in the 3th season of the TV series. In the film he was 23. Get your fact stright!

I knew a few of the ages. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast is named Prince Adam. I’m a huge Beauty and the Beast fan. Specifically Belle’s fan. So I searched up the Beast’s name and it was Adam. Or I heard it somewhere. I can’t remember. But all I know is that the Beast’s name is Adam.

I KNOW RIGHT

Snow White is a bit extreme 😂 Anyone want to guess at the gap between Jasmine and Jafar? I bet that is even worse. Also it's not so much the age difference but the characters and the actions, and emotions (also the time period they are in) I'm 12 years older than my partner (ain't nothing wrong with it - but it can create cultural differences 😂) plus I liked the comical way you approached the video. Entertaining. Still love all the films mentioned.